Salary of a Physicist

"The median expected salary for a typical Physicist I in the United States is $47,714. This basic market pricing report was prepared using our Certified Compensation Professionals' analysis of survey data collected from thousands of HR departments at employers of all sizes, industries and geographies"

"According to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Professional Information Survey Report, Calendar Year 1998,3 the average total income for a medical physicist in the United States was $99,000, while income at the 80th percentile was approximately 30% higher."

"Overall, the typical salaries for industrial physicists, which represent the 25th and 75th percentiles of the wages reported, ranged from $85,000 to $127,000. The typical salary range covers the middle portion of earnings, that is, one-quarter of the salaries fall below and one-quarter are above this range. Physicists in industry who earned their Ph.D.'s within the past five years had typical salaries ranging from $72,000 to $95,000. This group of recent Ph.D.'s reported the same median salary, $82,000, as their counterparts did in 2002."

$85,000 to $127,000

Physicists are scientists who specialize in physics. They can specialize
in many different areas, such as astronomy, subatomic particles, magnetism,
electricity, mechanics, optics, heat-transfer, or acoustics. Becoming a
physicists generally requires a doctoral degree, such as a Ph.D., which
means many years of college. Once finishing college though there is no
guarantee of employment. Physicists are generally employed by universities
as professors, lecturers, and researchers, and by laboratories in industry
unless of course they are using their skills to become an engineer, economist,
or financier.

The salary of a physicist ranges tremendously based upon schooling, and as
all areas of life over time salary has increased due to inflation. Albert
Einstein would probably be considered the most well known physicist of
his time made $10,000. In fact Einstein did not even ask Princeton University
for $10,000 he asked for about $7,500. Now though an average physicist
makes about $47,714, which isn't terrible considering that an average American
salary is $20,000-$30,000. Through schooling that salary of $47,414 has
the potential to go to $99,000 or even $127,000, — that is of course with
a Ph.D.